American Political Science Review

Papers
(The median citation count of American Political Science Review is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM204
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China96
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States85
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism75
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification75
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric66
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates65
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet64
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom64
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior63
This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest63
Starting with People Where They Are: Ella Baker’s Theory of Political Organizing62
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis60
Muddying the Waters: How Perceived Foreign Interference Affects Public Opinion on Protest Movements59
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election59
Notes from the Editors: Advice to Authors55
Public Perceptions of Minority Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy: A Replication, Validation, and Extension51
Notes from the Editors: #APSR51
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa50
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative47
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination43
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice41
Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India41
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability41
Structural Responsibility41
Representative Democracy and Social Equality38
Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach38
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia37
Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act36
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America36
Can Stakeholders Mobilize Businesses for the Protection of Democracy? Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Insurrection34
The Effect of Gender on Interruptions at Congressional Hearings32
Payments and Penalties for Democracy: Gendered Electoral Financing in Action Worldwide32
Senators at Home: Local Attentiveness and Policy Representation in Congress32
Land, Opportunism, and Displacement in Civil Wars: Evidence from Colombia32
How the Workplace Affects Employee Political Contributions32
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes31
Revolutionary Violence and Counterrevolution30
Statistically Valid Inferences from Privacy-Protected Data30
PSR volume 118 issue 2 Cover and Back matter29
Curation Bubbles29
How Partisan Is Local Election Administration?29
An Incomplete Recognition: An Analysis of Political Science Department Statements after the Murder of George Floyd29
Exposure to Mass Shootings and Voting Directly on Gun Policy29
Mass Versus Donor Attitudes on the Importance of Supreme Court Nominations29
“Let Our Ballots Secure What Our Bullets Have Won”: Union Veterans and the Making of Radical Reconstruction29
Political Emancipation and Modern Jewish National Identity28
Litigation for Sale: Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation28
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-19 — CORRIGENDUM27
Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings27
Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice? The Effect of Mohamed Salah on Islamophobic Behaviors and Attitudes —CORRIGENDUM27
Voting for Votes: Opposition Parties’ Legislative Activity and Electoral Outcomes27
Temporary Disenfranchisement: Negative Side Effects of Lowering the Voting Age27
Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox”26
Publius’ Proleptic Constitution25
Heterogeneous Naturalization Effects of Dual Citizenship Reform in Migrant Destinations: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Europe25
Elite Cues and Noncompliance24
The Psychology of Online Political Hostility: A Comprehensive, Cross-National Test of the Mismatch Hypothesis24
Who Hosts? The Correlates of Hosting the Internally Displaced24
Is Deliberation an Antidote to Extreme Partisan Polarization? Reflections on “America in One Room”24
Policy Threat, Partisanship, and the Case of the Affordable Care Act24
PSR volume 115 issue 4 Cover and Front matter23
Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South23
Educative Interventions to Combat Misinformation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India23
Trump and the Shifting Meaning of “Conservative”: Using Activists’ Pairwise Comparisons to Measure Politicians’ Perceived Ideologies23
PSR volume 116 issue 1 Cover and Back matter23
Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud – CORRIGENDUM23
Does Political Representation Increase Participation? Evidence from Party Candidate Lotteries in Mexico22
International Sports Events and Repression in Autocracies: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup22
Affluence and Influence in a Social Democracy22
The View from the Future: Aurobindo Ghose’s Anticolonial Darwinism22
Legal Civic Orders and Equitable Lived Citizenships22
Competition in Congressional Elections: Money versus Votes21
Anarchy, Scarcity, Nature: Rousseau’s Stag Hunt and the Arctic Walrus Hunt Compared21
Democracy, Public Support, and Measurement Uncertainty21
Immigration, Backlash, and Democracy21
Military Service and Immigrants’ Integration: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries20
How Do Electoral Incentives Affect Legislator Behavior? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures20
The Representational Consequences of Municipal Civil Service Reform20
The Generalizability of IR Experiments beyond the United States20
Elite Change without Regime Change: Authoritarian Persistence in Africa and the End of the Cold War20
Which Markets, Whose Rationality? Markets as Polyvalent Political Devices20
Breaking the Mold: Normative Hybridity as the Key to Contemporary “Non-Western” Political Theorizing20
Effectiveness of Incumbent’s Strategic Communication during Economic Crisis under Electoral Authoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey20
Jeremy Bentham: Pauperism, Colonialism, and Imperialism20
A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico19
Bureaucratic Representation and Gender Mainstreaming in International Organizations: Evidence from the World Bank19
Internalist and Integrationist Theories of (Global) Justice19
Does Competence Make Citizens Tolerate Undemocratic Behavior?19
Notes from the Editors: Post-Publication Critiques19
Why We Need Minimum Wages: Pay, Recognition, and Economic Citizenship19
Split Feelings: Understanding Implicit and Explicit Political Persuasion18
What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy18
Partisan Leaning18
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security – ERRATUM18
War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party18
Midcentury Modern: The Emergence of Stakeholders in Democratic Practice18
The President Will See Whom Now? Presidential Engagement with Organized Interests18
Judicial Specialization and Deference in Asylum Cases on the U.S. Courts of Appeals17
Disappointed Expectations: Downward Mobility and Electoral Change17
Frederick Douglass’s Political Theory of the Powerless: Natural Rights from Below17
The Free Movement of People and the Success of Far-Right Parties: Evidence from Switzerland’s Border Liberalization17
Reversion to the Mean, or Their Version of the Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of Populism17
Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany17
Campaign Finance Vouchers Do Not Expand the Diversity of Donors: Evidence from Seattle17
Global Slavery in the Making of States and International Orders17
Government Rhetoric and the Representation of Public Opinion in International Negotiations17
How Does Community Policing Affect Police Attitudes? An Experimental Test and a Theory of Bureaucrat-Citizen Contact17
Autocratic Policy and the Accumulation of Social Capital: The Moscow Housing Renovation Program – CORRIGENDUM16
STADL Up! The Spatiotemporal Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model for TSCS Data Analysis16
What Is Colonialism? The Dual Claims of a Twentieth-Century Political Category16
PSR volume 116 issue 2 Cover and Front matter16
The Class Ceiling in Politics16
Fairness According to Whom? Divergent Perceptions of Fairness among White and Black Americans and Its Effect on Trade Attitudes16
“Moderates”16
Fathers’ Leave Reduces Sexist Attitudes15
“Keep Your Heads Held High Boys!”: Examining the Relationship between the Proud Boys’ Online Discourse and Offline Activities15
PSR volume 116 issue 2 Cover and Back matter15
Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians15
PSR volume 115 issue 3 Cover and Front matter15
Searching for Ecoterrorism: The Crucial Case of the Unabomber15
The Marketplace of Ideas and the Agora: Herodotus on the Power of Isegoria14
Why Botter: How Pro-Government Bots Fight Opposition in Russia14
Who Votes: City Election Timing and Voter Composition14
The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation14
Separate but Unequal: Ethnocentrism and Racialization Explain the “Democratic” Peace in Public Opinion14
The Long-Term Effects of Oppression: Prussia, Political Catholicism, and the Alternative für Deutschland14
Repression and Dissent in Moments of Uncertainty: Panel Data Evidence from Zimbabwe14
PSR volume 117 issue 2 Cover and Back matter14
Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: How Rebel Regimes Solve the Guardianship Dilemma13
Why So Little Strategic Voting in India?13
Swords and Plowshares: Property Rights, Collective Action, and Nonstate Governance in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1920–194813
Public Reactions to Noncompliance with Judicial Orders13
Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming13
Why Political Philosophy Should Be Robust13
Reframing the Guardianship Dilemma: How the Military’s Dual Disloyalty Options Imperil Dictators13
The Politics of Police Data: State Legislative Capacity and the Transparency of State and Substate Agencies13
Movement versus Party: The Electoral Effects of Anti-Far Right Protests in Greece13
Saving Migrants’ Basic Human Rights from Sovereign Rule13
The Domestic Sources of International Reputation13
Deprovincializing Racial Capitalism: John Crawfurd and Settler Colonialism in India13
The Politics of Sight: Revisiting Timothy Pachirat’sEvery Twelve Seconds13
The Slaughter-House Dissents and the Reconstruction of American Liberalism13
Fake It ‘Til You Make It: A Natural Experiment to Identify European Politicians’ Benefit from Twitter Bots – CORRIGENDUM12
Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Liberal Nationalism12
PSR volume 115 issue 4 Cover and Back matter12
PSR volume 118 issue 1 Cover and Back matter12
BARP: Improving Mister P Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees — CORRIGENDUM12
The Effect of Judicial Decisions on Issue Salience and Legal Consciousness in Media Serving the LGBTQ+ Community12
The Ambivalence of Alexander Berkman’s Anti-Prison Anarchism11
From “Chinese Colonist” to “Yellow Peril”: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire11
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-1911
Authoritarian Rallying as Reputational Cascade? Evidence from Putin’s Popularity Surge after Crimea11
Migration and the Demand for Transnational Justice11
The Geography of Racially Polarized Voting: Calibrating Surveys at the District Level11
Nietzsche’s Critique of Power: Mimicry and the Advantage of the Weak11
Strategic Reporting: A Formal Model of Biases in Conflict Data11
Measurement That Matches Theory: Theory-Driven Identification in Item Response Theory Models11
White, Male, and Angry: A Reputation-Based Rationale for Backlash10
The Right to Hunger Strike10
Late Homesteading: Native Land Dispossession through Strategic Occupation10
PSR volume 118 issue 2 Cover and Front matter10
Representation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas10
Explaining Rural Conservatism: Political Consequences of Technological Change in the Great Plains10
PSR volume 117 issue 4 Cover and Front matter10
The Apocalypse from Below: The Dangerous Idea of the End of the World, the Politics of the Oppressed, and Anti-Anti-Apocalypticism10
Can Racial Diversity among Judges Affect Sentencing Outcomes?10
Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils10
PSR volume 117 issue 3 Cover and Back matter10
Taking Stock of Solidarity between People of Color: A Mini Meta-Analysis of Five Experiments9
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Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism9
Collaboration and Its Political Functions9
“Outside Lobbying” over the Airwaves: A Randomized Field Experiment on Televised Issue Ads9
Durkheim’s Empire: The Concept of Solidarity and Its Colonial Dimension9
Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Prosperity: Party Competition and Policy Outcomes in 50 States9
Descriptive Representation and Party Building: Evidence from Municipal Governments in Brazil9
Measuring and Modeling Neighborhoods9
Moving toward the Median: Compulsory Voting and Political Polarization9
Effective for Whom? Ethnic Identity and Nonviolent Resistance9
Reconsidering the Link Between Self-Reported Personality Traits and Political Preferences9
Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base9
From Rents to Welfare: Why Are Some Oil-Rich States Generous to Their People?9
The Shadow Effect of Courts: Judicial Review and the Politics of Preemptive Reform9
Don’t Look Back in Anger: Cooperation Despite Conflicting Historical Narratives9
Regime Support and Gender Quotas in Autocracies9
Violence and Voting in the United States: How School Shootings Affect Elections8
The Vietnam Draft Lottery and Whites’ Racial Attitudes: Evidence from the General Social Survey8
Notes from the Editors8
The Distributive Politics of Grants-in-Aid8
Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience8
The Curse of Good Intentions: Why Anticorruption Messaging Can Encourage Bribery8
An Insurgent Mood: Lorraine Hansberry on the Politics of Home8
Evidence of Caste-Class Discrimination from a Conjoint Analysis of Law Enforcement Officers8
Legacies of Wartime Sexual Violence: Survivors, Psychological Harms, and Mobilization8
Rebel Motivations and Repression8
Can Elections Motivate Responsiveness in a Single-Party Regime? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam8
Rethinking the Coloniality of Race: Blood Purity and the Politics of Periodization7
The American Viewer: Political Consequences of Entertainment Media7
Canvassing the Gatekeepers: A Field Experiment to Increase Women Voters’ Turnout in Pakistan7
“Filling the Ranks”: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Military Recruitment7
Out-Competing Rivals: Armed Group Governance and Civilian Attitudes in Colombia7
The Train Wrecks of Modernization: Railway Construction and Separatist Mobilization in Europe7
Does State Repression Spark Protests? Evidence from Secret Police Surveillance in Communist Poland7
Protocols of Production: The Absent Factories of Digital Capitalism7
The Influence of Partisanship on Assessments of Promise Fulfillment and Accountability7
Elements of External Validity: Framework, Design, and Analysis7
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security7
PSR volume 118 issue 3 Cover and Front matter7
Notes from the Editors7
Crediting Invisible Work: Congress and the Lawmaking Productivity Metric (LawProM)7
Democracy and the Epistemic Problems of Political Polarization7
Group Size and Protest Mobilization across Movements and Countermovements7
White Democrats’ Growing Support for Black Politicians in the Era of the “Great Awokening”7
Reducing Prejudice toward Refugees: Evidence That Social Networks Influence Attitude Change in Uganda7
Ambiguous Platforms and Correlated Preferences: Experimental Evidence7
Reexamining the Effect of Refugees on Civil Conflict: A Global Subnational Analysis7
Equality, Reciprocity, or Need? Bolstering Welfare Policy Support for Marginalized Groups with Distributive Fairness6
PSR volume 117 issue 1 Cover and Front matter6
Domestic Institutions, Geographic Concentration, and Agricultural Liberalization6
Impartial Administration and Peaceful Agrarian Reform: The Foundations for Democracy in Scandinavia6
The Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China’s Great Leap Famine – Expression of Concern6
Greed, Envy, and Admiration: The Distinct Nature of Public Opinion about Redistribution from the Rich6
The Creative Advance Must Be Defended: Miscegenation, Metaphysics, and Race War in Jan Smuts’s Vision of the League of Nations6
Notes from the Editors: Review Transfers6
Politicians’ Theories of Voting Behavior6
Motivated Reasoning and Democratic Accountability6
“Problems of an Other’s Making”: B. R. Ambedkar, Caste, and Majoritarian Domination6
Armed Violence and Patriarchal Values: A Survey of Young Men in Thailand and Their Military Experiences6
Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies5
Activism versus Criticism? The Case for a Distinctive Role for Social Critics5
The Gendered Impact of Corruption Revelations: Unveiling the Role of Parties and Voters in Mexico5
Notes from the Editors5
State Support for Religion and Government Legitimacy in Christian-Majority Countries5
Conditional Enfranchisement: How Partisanship Determines Support for Noncitizen Voting Rights5
Activating Animus: The Uniquely Social Roots of Trump Support5
PSR volume 117 issue 1 Cover and Back matter5
The Opinion-Mobilizing Effect of Social Protest against Police Violence: Evidence from the 2020 George Floyd Protests – CORRIGENDUM5
The Global Resonance of Human Rights: What Google Trends Can Tell Us5
Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability5
Crossing Over: Majority Party Control Affects Legislator Behavior and the Agenda5
A New Measure of Affective Polarization5
The Politics of Respectability and Black Americans’ Punitive Attitudes5
Buying a Blind Eye: Campaign Donations, Regulatory Enforcement, and Deforestation5
Women Also Know Stuff: Challenging the Gender Gap in Political Sophistication5
Women Grab Back: Exclusion, Policy Threat, and Women’s Political Ambition5
Bribes and Bombs: The Effect of Corruption on Terrorism5
International Rewards for Gender Equality Reforms in Autocracies5
They’re Still There, He’s All Gone: American Fatalities in Foreign Wars and Right-Wing Radicalization at Home5
Strategies of Green Industrial Policy: How States Position Firms in Global Supply Chains5
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